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by prescribing and fixing closed seasons, having due regard to the 

 zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and line of migratory 

 flight, thereby enabling the department to select and designate suit- 

 lable districts for dillerent portions of the country, and it shall be 

 unlawful to shoot or by any device kill or seize and capture migratory 

 birds within the prote<^'tion of this law during said closed seasons, and 

 any person who shall violate any of the provisions or regulations of 

 this law for the protection of luigratoiy birds shall be guilty of a 

 jnisdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned 

 not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court. 



Publication of regulations; time for examination and consideration before adop- 

 tion; approval by the President; act not to affect local laws. 



The Department of Agriculture, after the preparation of said 

 regulations, shall cause the same to be made public, and shall allow 

 a period of three months in which said regulations may be examined 

 and considered before final adoption, permitting, when deemed 

 proper, public hearings thereon, and after final adoption shall cause 

 the same to be engrossed and submitted to the President of the United 

 States for approval: Provided, /iowever, That nothing herein con- 

 tained shall be deemed to aifect or interfere with the local laws of 

 the States anil Territories for the protection of nonmigratory game 

 or other birds resident and breeding within their borders, nor to pre- 

 vent the States and Territories from enacting laws and regulations to 

 promote and render efficient the regulations of the Department of 

 Agriculture provided under this statute. 



Appropriation for carrying out act. 



There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury 

 aot otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out these 

 provisions, the sum of $10,000. 



Act March 4. Wl^. c. 145. 37 Stat. S47. 



Thes^e are provisions accompanying appropriations for "General Ex- 

 penses, Burean of Biolnsncal Survey." in the agricultural appropriation 

 act for the fiscal year 1914. cited above. 



\CT MARCH 4. 1913, c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 



97inter elk refuge in Wyoming; selection and enclosure of lands. 



For the establishment and maintenance of a winter elk refuge in 

 he State of Wyoming, * * * and the Secretary of Agriculture 

 s hereb}^ authorized to include in said refuge and to inclose not more 

 han one thousand acres of unoccupied public lands, which when 

 jelected shall l)e made to conform to the lines of the public surveys, 

 ind shall be adjacent to or partly inclosed by said refuge. 



Act of March 4. lOlM, c. 145, 37 Stat. S47. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for Ihe fiscal 

 year 1914, cited above. 



A provision for the estalilishnient of a winter elk reserve in Wyoming, 

 and dei^crihing lands to be included therein, and authorizing and making 

 an appropriation for the purchase i»f the same, the erection of buildings 

 and enclosures thereon, etc., contained in the agricultural ai)propria(ion 

 act for the hscal year 1913, act August 10, 1912, set forth in "Laws 

 Apjilicable to the United States Department of Agriculture," 1912, p. 226. 



